A couple of weeks back I had the worst week ever, as a result of the terrible combination of alcohol, ecstasy and retrograde behaviour. It started innocently enough with a few drinks after work. My team had just completed a release of the website and it had dragged on pretty late into Friday afternoon and then into the evening. By the time it was done I was ready to go home, but I went down to this quarter's drinking hole anyway, and got a round in. I'd had a sandwich for lunch and nothing for dinner so I was pretty wrecked pretty quickly.
I was at the world famous and widely feared 'insulting your managers' stage He didn't seem to care. By last orders I'd decided, and said out loud, that I wasn't interested in his pathetic relationships or the dreary circus of his life, and a couple of colleagues and I got dragged along to Fabric by a girlfriend and her friend from home.
Fabric, after kicking out time, is pretty hard to get into. When it's 2ManyDJs and it's been advertised on the escalators on the Underground The queue was about m long - all the way roung the block and 3 or 4 people wide. Drunk and a bit bored I invited everyone back to mine to take drugs and listen to music. This was serious mistake 2. By the time they'd left I had given away 3 pairs of socks, 12 pills, had 4 myself and got the eye-shakes as bad as I've ever had them in my life.
When I woke up on Saturday lunchtime with the phone ringing, my head was pounding from the booze and my eyes were screaming from the abuse they'd had. They felt like the muscles all around the orbs, but especially along the top, were being individually squeezed by metal tweezers.
Light was unbearable. People appalled me. It was my mum calling. I did meet one of my colleagues, D, to give him back his Oystercard but it was pretty tricky. During the night we'd had a couple of extremely interesting but sometimes forced conversations and there had been a strange tension. Looking back I think it was just two really fried brains having difficulty handshaking properly, dropping packets if you will, but it wasn't too bad the next day. However, it was already clear that something larger was wrong.
